RPH MINGGU 9

RANCANGAN PENGAJARAN HARIAN

            MATA PELAJARAN: BAHASA INGGERIS

 

MINGGU 9

 

DATE/DAY	24.02.2014 (Monday)
CLASS	3A
TIME	1.25 – 2.35 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Literature: The novel – Around The World In 80 Days
TOPIC	Chapter 5: Phileas Fogg Travels Across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Chapter 6: Phileas Fogg Rides an Elephant
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) identify 1 incident that happened to Passepartout in Bombay b) identify 1 plan of Detective Fix in order to stop Phileas and Passepartout when they arrived in Calcutta c) identify 1 problem that Phileas and Passepartout had to face on the train journey to Calcutta d) identify 1 solution that Phileas used to solve this problem
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Vocabulary development, Moral values – determination, resourcefulness
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher begins the lesson by asking the students what they still remember about Chapter 4. She listens to the students’ responses. b) Next, she tells the students to read the title of chapter 5. She tells them to guess what Phileas and Passepartout will encounter in their journey across these two oceans. Students are expected to guess that they would face some difficulties. c) Then, the teacher reads chapter 5 but pauses at certain paragraphs in order to stress the main events and new words. When she is done with this chapter, she tells the students to look at the board and study an overview of chapter 2. The teacher stresses on the main events such as the incident that happened to Passepartout in Bombay and Detective Fix’s plan to stop them when they arrived in Calcutta. d) After that, the teacher moves on to chapter 6 and asks the students to guess what will happen to the Phileas and Passepartout on the train journey to Calcutta. After listening to them, she continues to read chapter 6. She pauses at certain paragraphs to stress on the problems that this pair will face and how they will solve their problem e) When the chapter is done, she tells them to also study an overview of chapter 6 on the board. She points out to the train journey that had to stop near a village and the ride on the back of an elephant f) Before the lesson finishes, the teacher asks the students to identify the incident that happened to Passepartout in Bombay, Detective Fix’s plan to stop Phileas and Passepartout in Calcutta, the problem that this pair had to face on their journey to Calcutta and how they solved this problem.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. Most of the students have forgotten to bring their books. Hence, they had to listen with no book to refer to. This has probably led to them being unable to provide clearer answers when asked by the teacher. However, not many students would volunteer to answer the teacher’s questions. The teacher had to calls some students. They were able to answer about 70% of the questions accurately. The teacher will further test their understanding in future lessons.

 

DATE/DAY	24.02.2014 (Monday)
CLASS	1L
TIME	5.10 – 5.45 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	UniT 4: Safe and Sound
TOPIC	Building Blocks
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) name and say aloud the road signs b) pronounce the targeted vocabulary related to road signs
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multiple intelligence
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher has decided to do this lesson again at this class as most of them did not turn up during Saturday class. The aim is to get everybody to be involved in learning this topic. So, students are asked to look at a picture with a lot of road signs. The teacher asks them to identify each of the road sign. b) Next, the teacher plays the audio DVD to allow students to listen and practise saying aloud the road signs. c) She pauses after each road signs to allow all students to internalize the targeted vocabulary. d) She replays the DVD if necessary so that all of them will be able to participate actively. e) After that, she divides the class into 6 groups to play a guessing game. This game requires the teacher to give 3 marks for every correct answer a group receives. f) Then, she plays the audio-video DVD and randomly select the road signs g) Each member of the group takes turn to give the correct answer for the road sign. For a correct answer given the first time, the group gets 3 marks. When the member of the group does not know the answer, another group member is allowed to help. If the answer given by the other group member is correct, the group gets 1 mark. h) Before the lesson ends, the teacher asks the students what they have learned in class.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The teacher did not play the DVD. Instead she reads out aloud all of the words and the students were asked to repeat after her. Then, she told them to take down the spelling of each road sign into their books. The teacher reminded them to study the spelling of these words as she will test their understanding in the coming lesson.

 

DATE/DAY	25.02.2014 (Tuesday)
CLASS	3N
TIME	12.50 – 2.00 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Wh-questions
TOPIC	Learning how to ask questions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: a) ask questions when given pictures b) fill in blanks with correct words for a song lyrics c) sing a stanza from a song entitled, “More than words”
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher explains what the students will be learning in the class. They will be taught how to sing a short stanza from a song entitled, “More Than Words”, to fill in blanks in a rational cloze text based on the song and to ask questions using Wh-questions on several pictures. b) Next, Cikgu James (ETA) gets ready to play the song while the teacher writes the lyrics of the short stanza of the song on the board. After that, Cikgu James plays the song in class. He repeats this song so that the students will be able to understand the song. c) After that, he tells the students to listen for the third time and to fill in the blanks with the correct words from the lyrics. Cikgu James calls out several students to answer on the board.  d) Cikgu James checks the answers and thanks the students for trying. Next, he takes out several colourful pictures that show scenes from the United States. He asks some questions using Wh-questions and teaches the students how to answer his questions. He also encourages students to form their own questions based on what they see in the pictures. d) Before the class ends, the teacher asks the students the meaning of the Wh-questions again and tells the students that she will teach them how to construct Wh-questions in class during Thursday lesson.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The students did not answer all of the blanks correctly as some of them did not know how to spell the words. However, they sang the stanza twice as they enjoyed the song. But they were quite slow when asked to answer and ask questions with Cikgu James. Once Cikgu James left, the teacher found out from the students that they felt unconfident speaking in English.

 

DATE/DAY	25.02.2014 (Tuesday)
CLASS	1L
TIME	2.00 – 3.10 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Unit 4: Safe and Sound
TOPIC	Language In Use
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: a) learn sentence patterns for expressing safe and unsafe practices on the road b) practise the sentence patterns related to road safety
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multiple intelligence, Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher draws their attention to 4 pictures. She asks them to talk about the pictures by asking some questions. b) Next, she plays the audio-video DVD and pauses at the targeted sentence patterns after each picture. Then she asks some questions that will help students to learn the sentence patterns. This process is repeated until the students have learned all of the sentence patterns for 4 pictures. c) Before the class ends, the teacher lets the students to take down examples of sentence patterns on safe and unsafe practices on the road.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The teacher did not play the DVD as the CD was borrowed by another teacher. So, to substitute it, the teacher wrote the sentence patterns on the board. She gave the first sentence pattern for the first picture and taught the students how to describe the other 3 pictures based on the first example. It was found out that only very few students could form sentences based on the given example. Then, the teacher let them repeat the sentence patterns for several times and told them to take them down as notes.

 

DATE/DAY	25.02.2014 (Tuesday)
CLASS	1A
TIME	4.35 – 5.10 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Unit 4: Safe and Sound
TOPIC	Language In Use
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: a) share and talk about the dangers of not following road signs b) practise the vocabulary learned c) practise the pronunciation of the vocabulary d) practise the sentence patterns related to road safety
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multi Intelligence, Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher draws students’ attention to a given picture in the textbook. She tells students to work in pairs. They are to look at the picture and share what they see in the pictures pertaining to road safety with their partners. b) The teacher also reminds and encourages the students to use the targeted sentence patterns that they have learned on Friday. She also models the structures if the students have forgotten. c) Then, once they are done, the teacher invites some students to share with the class. d) Next, the teacher tells the students to do another pair work. This time they are to talk to their friends and gather as many information on the do’s and the don’ts of road safety in ten minutes. Students are not allowed to write down any of the information. e) At the end of this ten minutes, the teacher invites all students to share their findings with the class. f) Before the class finishes, the teacher lists some of the information on how to stay safe on the road.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The students were able to use the targeted sentence patterns when asked to describe the given picture. However, the students did not get to share their findings in class. This will be done during Thursday lesson.

 

DATE/DAY	25.02.2014 (Tuesday)
CLASS	3A
TIME	5.45 – 6.20 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Literature: The novel – Around The World In 80 Days
TOPIC	Chapter 1: Phileas Fogg Finds A New Butler Chapter 2: Phileas Fogg Says Something He Might Regret
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) explain once more the main personal attributes of Phileas Fogg b) describe how the trip around the world starts in the Reform Club
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Learning how to learn, Vocabulary development
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) This lesson will focus on note taking of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Once the students have completed the notes, the teacher asks them to explain once more the main personal attributes of Phileas Fogg and how the trip around the world starts in the Reform Club. b) The teacher listens to students responses and corrects any unclear answers. c) Before the class ends, she tells them to be ready for Wednesday class as notes for Chapters 3 and 4 will be given.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. But the teacher could only give notes on Chapter 1 as the students returned late from their Health Instruction class. The students gave punctuality and organized as the main personal attributes of Phileas Fogg. They could also explain that the bank robbery and the need to find out if a person can travel around the world in 80 days were the factors that led to Phileas accepting the challenge.

 

DATE/DAY	26.02.2014 (Wednesday)
CLASS	1A
TIME	12.50 – 2.00 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Celebrities
TOPIC	Discussions on one’s favourite celebrity
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) act out a dialogue in pairs b) project their voice and use facial expression in order to play out a role
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multiple intelligence, Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher explains to the students that they will continue the role play based on scripts that students have prepared in last week’s lesson. They will learn to speak spontaneously without referring to any notes. So, the teacher gets the students ready for their role play. She gives them 5 minutes to read their scripts again before choosing them randomly for class presentation. b) At the end of this time, she together with Cikgu James (ETA) will call out the first pair of students to come to the front. A table and 2 chairs are provided for the students to sit and to act as if they are sitting at a café. The audience is to pay attention to the role play. c) At the end of the role play, Cikgu James asks students to identify what the pair has done well and how they can improve their script as well as performance. Students are to volunteer and the teachers are to listen as well as add any comments. d) This process is repeated until most of the students get their chance to present their script. e) Once the presentations are completed, Cikgu James and the teacher ask the students what they have learned in class about the role play and how it has improved their ability to speak in English.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. As many as 7 pairs of students were asked to present. Based on students’ performance, they were able to incorporate the teacher’s advice into their role play. The question and answer session has helped each pair to do better than the previous pair as they listened to each other’s comments. They also informed the teachers that they have found some confidence in coming to the front of the class to do presentations and that the fact that they forgot their lines or made grammatical mistakes were not important. Overall, they enjoyed watching their friends’ performance and laughed when there were funny actions.

 

 

DATE/DAY	26.02.2014 (Wednesday)
CLASS	3A
TIME	3.25 – 4.00 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Literature: The novel – Around The World In 80 Days
TOPIC	Chapter 2: Phileas Fogg Says Something He Might Regret Chapter 3: Phileas Fogg Shocks His New Butler
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) describe how the trip around the world starts in the Reform Club b) list what Phileas brings for the long trip around the world
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Learning how to learn, Vocabulary development
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) This lesson will focus on note taking of Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. Once the students have completed the notes, the teacher asks them to explain once more how the trip around the world starts in the Reform Club and how modest Phileas’ provisions are for the trip. b) The teacher listens to students responses and corrects any unclear answers. c) Before the class ends, she tells them to be ready for Friday class as notes for Chapters 4 and 5 will be given.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The students could explain how the trip starts from the Reform Club and could list all 8 items that Phileas brings for the long journey.

 

DATE/DAY	26.02.2014 (Wednesday)
CLASS	1L
TIME	4.00 – 5.10 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Unit 4: Safe and Sound
TOPIC	Having Fun
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) talk about the dangers of not following road signs b) practise the vocabulary learned and its pronunciation c) practise the sentence patterns related to road safety
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multiple intelligence, Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher draws students’ attention to the picture. She asks some questions that will get students to describe about the picture. The students are expected to say that there is a boy talking about road safety to his friends. b) Next, the teacher writes the sentence patterns for some of the road safety rules that they have learned in previous lessons. She tells the students to read the sentences aloud. c) After that, she asks each student to draw 1 picture that shows a road safety. She gives them 10 minutes to do this on their own. d) At the end of this time, she tells the students to share with their partner about the picture they draw. They are to do this activity as a pair work. The teacher walks around the class to listen to the students doing this with their friends. e) Before the class ends, the teacher asks the students to form groups of 5 with about 6 to 7 students in each group for the next lesson.
REFLECTION	This lesson was postponed. The reason for this was the teacher wanted to test students’ understanding of the previously learned sentence patterns on road safety. This was done by doing a quiz where students were divided into 4 groups. The group that gave the highest number of road safety rules was awarded as the winner and they were given cookies. It was found out that most of them had forgotten the sentence pattern and this exercise had motivated a few students to remember them.

 

DATE/DAY	27.02.2014 (Thursday)
CLASS	1A
TIME	12.50 – 2.00 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Unit 4: Safe and Sound
TOPIC	Having Fun Fun In Sharing
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) talk about the dangers of not following road signs using pictures/photographs b) practise the vocabulary learned and its pronunciation c) practise the sentence patterns related to road safety d) draft a simple skit for presentations on road safety
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multiple intelligences, Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher draws students’ attention on the given picture. She asks the students to tell her what they can see in the picture. She listens to their responses. b) Next, she moves on to another picture and asks them again what they can see in the second picture. The students are expected to say that it shows some students acting in a drama on road safety. The teacher wants them to identify the do’s and the don’ts in the picture using the targeted sentence patterns. She listens as the students give their responses and corrects if they make any mistakes. c) After that, she tells them to sit in their own groups. The students are to draft a short skit on road safety which they will act out on Thursday next week in the class. She explains what they need to do in their skit by giving them an example of a dialogue for 4 students. d) They are to do this in class in their own group. The teacher walks around the class in order to check their progress. e) Before the end of the class, the teacher reminds them to include the do’s and the don’ts of road safety in their skit as well as to use facial expressions in their upcoming skit.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The students were able to use the vocabulary on road safety, explain the dangers of not following road safety rules and also use the sentence patterns to express the don’s and the don’ts. The students have also came out with their own skit which was still on draft stage but they seemed to have plenty of ideas for the skit.

 

DATE/DAY	27.02.2014 (Thursday)
CLASS	3N
TIME	3.25 – 4.35 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Writing
TOPIC	Writing Wh-questions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) write simple Wh-questions that use 5 or 6 words
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher begins the lesson by writing down the Wh-questions such as what, when, where, which, why and how. She asks them to define their meaning. She listens and corrects if they are unsure. b) Then, she shows examples of simple sentences using the Wh-questions. She explains what each question mean. c) Next, she asks students to give her examples of sentences in Bahasa Melayu. Then, she shows how to write them in English. She explains what each word mean and how the words correspond with the Bahasa Melayu words. d) After that, she asks students to ask simple sentences in English. This is done after the teacher says a question in Bahasa Melayu and in turn the students have to think of how to ask the question in English. e) Before the lesson ends, she tells the students to take down examples of questions that are discussed in the class.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. However, very few students could form grammatically correct questions when the teacher gave them Bahasa Melayu questions. It was noted that some students understood how to form very basic questions in English. More practice is needed with this class on Friday.

 

DATE/DAY	27.02.2014 (Thursday)
CLASS	IL
TIME	5.45- 6.20 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Unit 4: Safe and Sound
TOPIC	Having Fun
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) talk about the dangers of not following road signs b) practise the vocabulary learned and its pronunciation c) practise the sentence patterns related to road safety
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multiple intelligence, Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher draws students’ attention to the picture. She asks some questions that will get students to describe about the picture. The students are expected to say that there is a boy talking about road safety to his friends. b) Next, the teacher writes the sentence patterns for some of the road safety rules that they have learned in previous lessons. She tells the students to read the sentences aloud. c) After that, she asks each student to draw 1 picture that shows a road safety. She gives them 10 minutes to do this on their own. d) At the end of this time, she tells the students to share with their partner about the picture they draw. They are to do this activity as a pair work. The teacher walks around the class to listen to the students doing this with their friends. e) Before the class ends, the teacher asks the students to form groups of 5 with about 6 to 7 students in each group for the next lesson.
REFLECTION	This lesson was not completed. The students did not get to present in their group as they did not have enough time to present. The teacher will have to get them to present in the coming lesson next week.

 

DATE/DAY	28.02.2014 (Friday)
CLASS	1A
TIME	2.35 – 3.10 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Unit 5: Money Matters
TOPIC	Stimulus
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) activate students’ background knowledge on why money is important in their lives b) talk about the uses of money c) talk about savings and why it is important to save
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Multiple Intelligences, Thinking Skills
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher guides all students to talk about the title, “Money Matters”. She asks questions that will let students to define its meaning and to explain why money is important. She listens to their answers and adds to their answers if necessary. b) Then, she tells students to look at the given picture and to describe what they will do if they have a lot of money. The students are expected to say that the picture shows the uses of money. Students may want to save their money or use it to buy stationary, clothes or toys. c) She lists down all of the students’ possible answers on the board and they take these down into their books.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The students were able to give a lot of ways on how they will spend the money.

 

DATE/DAY	28.02.2014 (Friday)
CLASS	3N
TIME	4.00 – 5.10 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Writing
TOPIC	Writing Wh-questions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) write simple Wh-questions that use 5 or 6 words
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) The teacher continues yesterday's lesson by asking the students to explain what each Wh-question means. b) Then, she gets them to rewrite questions in Bahasa Melayu into English. These are given on the board. She only gives the first word for each question and gives them 15 minutes to do this on their own. c) At the end of this time, she calls some students to write their answers on the board. Once they are done, she checks their work and shows how each question can be improved.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. However, very few students could construct meaningful questions without making any mistakes. But they showed some understanding of how to use Wh-questions.

 

 

DATE/DAY	28.02.2014 (Friday)
CLASS	3A
TIME	5.10 – 6.20 pm
SUBJECT	English
UNIT	Literature: The novel – Around The World In 80 Days
TOPIC	Chapter 4: Introducing Detective Fix Chapter 5: Phileas Fogg Travels Across The Red Sea and The Indian Ocean
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: a) identify the reason why Detective Fix suspects Phileas as the bank robber b) identify what happens to Passepartout in Bombay and the detective’s plan to catch the men
LEARNING EMPHASIS	Learning how to learn, Vocabulary development
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES	a) This lesson will focus on note taking of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5. Once the students have completed the notes, the teacher asks them to explain once more the reason why Detective Fix suspects Phileas as the bank robber and to identify what happens to Passepartout in Bombay as well as the detective’s plan to catch them b) The teacher listens to students responses and corrects any unclear answers.
REFLECTION	This lesson was completed. The students could identify why Fix suspects Phileas, what happens to Passepartout in Bombay and Fix’s plan to catch Phileas and Passepartout.